DRAGONS team vs roosters

[Joey_dragons]

Adam Quinlan
Brett Morris
Josh Dugan
Gerard Beale
Jason Nightingale
Gareth Widdop
Benji Marshall
Ben Creagh ©
Mitch Rein
Mike Cooper
Leeson Ah Mau
Joel Thompson
Jack de Belin
Bronson Harrison
Trent Merrin
Will Matthews
Jack Stockwell
Shane Pumipi

www.dragons.com.au

 

[Get2dachopper!]

I'd prefer that we carry another hooker on the bench in this game.

 

[tumbidragon]

Agree. Rein will find it hard tackling the Roosters pack for 80. prob would drop Harrison as I think Mathews offers far more. Runs harder with better lines and also has a decent offload. Not to mention can put on a hit Good to see Mary sticking with JDB at lock. He's been fantastic and definitely deserves a starting spot. Plus Mez will give us plenty of impact off the bench, unfortunately not for my SC team lol
Feeling more confident this time round against the Nick Politis's...

 

[Highland Saint]

Who do they have out?
SBW
Aubusson
Tupou

I think Jennings is back this week

 

[Get2dachopper!]

Yeah, they have some cattle missing. I think we are a genuine chance.

Since Mortimer left, who do they have coming off the bench to give Friend a rest?

 

[Highland Saint]

No-one I believe

 

[Get2dachopper!]

Pretty tough for a hooker to go the full 80 and still be effective. I can only really think of Cam Smith, but even he has a break, sometimes slotting into halfback.
Farrah goes 80 too, but becomes tired and makes mistakes.

 

[chuckling]

Farrah goes 80 too, but becomes tired and makes mistakes.

Maybe he can use that as the excuse as to why he told Tallis that Potter sucks...

 

[bottle]

Yeah, they have some cattle missing. I think we are a genuine chance.

Since Mortimer left, who do they have coming off the bench to give Friend a rest?

They had Heath L'estrange performing in this role for a bit. Not sure if they are persevering with that though.

 

[Highland Saint]

They had Heath L'estrange performing in this role for a bit. Not sure if they are persevering with that though.

Looks like L'estrange is named for this game. Friend made 69 tackles against the Knights but towards the end fell off a few tackles to let in a try

 

[bottle]

Extended bench I think Highland. Hope they play him. He stinks.

 

[Highland Saint]

Extended bench I think Highland. Hope they play him. He stinks.

Yeah you're right Bottle, extended bench. Geez I'm gonna be tense watching this one. Its really hard to be optimistic following our last several outings against them.
There defense has slipped a lot since last year but they've still got easy points in them any time they feel like running the ball in. We've played them back in to form a few times but I think we might be able to jag a narrow win if we can get a few lucky ref calls

 

[RedVDave]

Roosters

1 Anthony Minichiello (c)
2 Nene Macdonald
3 Michael Jennings
4 Shaun Kenny-Dowall
5 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
6 James Maloney
7 Mitchell Pearce
8 Jared Waerea-Hargreaves
9 Jake Friend
10 Sam Moa
11 Boyd Cordner
12 Aidan Guerra
13 Frank-Paul Nuuausala

Interchange
14 Heath L'Estrange
15 Isaac Liu
16 Dylan Napa
17 Rémi Casty
18 Vincent Leuluai


Coach: Trent Robinson


http://www.nrl.com/official-team-lists-round-21/tabid/10874/newsid/80604/default.aspx

 

[jenninga]

Who do they have out?
SBW
Aubusson
Tupou

I think Jennings is back this week

Personally they should have given him another weeks rest.;-)

 

[Highland Saint]

Personally they should have given him another weeks rest.;-)

:lol:

 

[Cagey Mac]

I think that he should come back this week but take it easy
You know
Look after himself
Don't run too fast
Try to avoid tackling
Take a breather every now and then
All in Michael's best interest of course.

 

[rainman44]

The roosters forward pack will be hard to stop and that's minus sbw and aubuson, we couldn't go it with manly so if there is ever a good time to show us what they have it's sat night.

 

[krispyredv]

Our backs > their backs. On paper their forwards will munch us but we have been quietly improving. If we can match them in the forwards we win. Mike cooper and benny creagh need to match them in the first 20 then mez coming in off the bench with stockwell. The only issue is our edges with the defense retreating, this needs to be fixed and there were some improvements against the tigers.

 

[Slackboy72]

I'm of the opinion that this decides both teams years.
Roosters lose this and they are also-rans, finish 5-8, get smashed in a prelim.
We win and we finish 7th, have a spectacular finals run, get smashed in a prelim.
Again just my opinion.

 

[Tryhard]

Is Merrin 100%? If so I think the Pack will do well on the weekend, but agree Rein can't last 80, that will be where they run late if he does!

Agree. Rein will find it hard tackling the Roosters pack for 80. prob would drop Harrison as I think Mathews offers far more. Runs harder with better lines and also has a decent offload. Not to mention can put on a hit Good to see Mary sticking with JDB at lock. He's been fantastic and definitely deserves a starting spot. Plus Mez will give us plenty of impact off the bench, unfortunately not for my SC team lol
Feeling more confident this time round against the Nick Politis's...